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1943: The United States asks the Chinese Nationals to join with the Communists to present a common front to the Japanese.
1953: The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War.
1972: The world learns an earlier announcement that all Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympics had been rescued was erroneous; all had been killed by their captors from the Black September terrorist group; all but 3 terrorists also died in shootout around midnight.
1988: Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American Texas Ranger in the force’s 165-year history.
1991: Leningrad, second-largest city in the USSR, is changed to Saint Petersburg, which had been the city’s name prior to 1924.
1991: USSR officially recognizes independence for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1995: Baltimore Orioles’ Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a 56-year MLB record held by Lou Gehrig; in 2007 fans voted this achievement the most memorable moment in MLB history.
1997: Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: over 1 million people line London’s streets to honor her and 2.5 billion watched the event on TV.
